Recent rains across Ukraine and Russia have improved conditions for 2018’s winter grain sowing and the prospects for the next year’s harvest. The situation is very favourable for sowing. Weather again gave us a bonus. Rains have fallen in all regions and there is nobody who can complain about the weather. Ukrainian farmers have sown 2.3 million hectares of winter grains as of Sept. 24, or 32 percent of the forecasted area of 7.2 million hectares. They sowed 2.5 million hectares at the same date a year earlier.